Naida Silverthorn, Ph.D.
College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Senior Instructor
Phone:
(773) 442-5853
Email:
n-silverthorn@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment
Country:
United States
Expertise
Youth mentoring; self-esteem development; community- and school-based positive youth development programs; statistical methodology and analysis; program evaluation.
Statistics and Research Methods II
Service Learning Capstone
Community Psychology
Child Psychology
Adolescent Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Seminar in Drug Abuse
Psychology of Personality
Survey of Psychology
Psychology of Criminal Behavior
Research Interests
Youth mentoring processes and outcomes; influences on positive youth development and adolescent self-esteem development.
Education
Ph.D. University of Ottawa
B.A. Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada
Selected Publications
Bavarian, N., Lewis, K. M., Holloway, S., Wong, L., Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., Flay, B. R., & Siebert, C. (2022) Mechanisms of influence on youth substance use for a social-emotional and character development program: A theory-based approach. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(12), 1854-1863.
Lewis, K. M., Holloway, S. D., Bavarian, N., Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., Flay, B., & Siebert, C. (2021). Effects of Positive Action in elementary school on student behavioral and social-emotional outcomes. The Elementary School Journal, 121(4).
Sánchez, B., Pryce, J., Silverthorn, N., Deane, K. L., & DuBois, D. L. (2019). Do mentor support for ethnic-racial identity and mentee cultural mistrust matter for girls of color? A preliminary investigation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 25(4), 505-514.
Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., Lewis, K. M., Reed, A., Bavarian, N., Day, J., Ji, P., Acock, A. C., Vuchinich, S., & Flay, B. R. (2017). Effects of a school-based social-emotional and character development program on self-esteem levels and processes: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. SAGE Open, 7(3), 1-12.
Silverthorn, N., DuBois, D. L., & Crombie, G. (2005). Self-perceptions of ability and achievement across the high school transition: Investigation of a state-trait model. The Journal of Experimental Education, 73(3), 191-218.